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Use this page to find the best golf club fitters in Massachusetts, including custom fitters and golf fitting facilities in Saugus, Boston, South Easton, Pembrooke, Danvers, Burlington, Waltham, Needham, Sandwich, and Lexington, MA.

Ace of Clubs Ace of Clubs is a state-of-the-art testing and club fitting facility in Saugus. Owner Frank Viola is a Master Club Technician and Certified Professional Club Fitter who has served and fitted thousands of clients from both the US and around the world. Ace of Clubs’ custom shop caters to all kinds of golf club building and modifications and promises the highest standards of professional service and build quality.

City Golf Boston City Golf Boston is an indoor golf training facility located in the city’s financial district. They have more than 18 years of experience in providing golf instruction and club fitting services to their customers.  Customers can book to try out demo clubs from all the major manufacturers including Titleist, Ping, TaylorMade, Callaway, Mizuno, and Tour Edge. If equipment is purchased the fitting fees are refunded.

GOLFTEC GOLFTEC is an award-winning Golf Digest and Golf Magazine Clubfitter, and a Top 100 Club Fitter for Callaway, Mizuno, and Ping, with teaching and club fitting centers in a number of locations in Massachusetts including Danvers, Burlington, Waltham, and Needham. They provide custom-fit golf clubs to players of all ages and abilities and their services include full-bag, driver, wood, iron, wedge, and putter fittings. Fittings are done using Foresight launch monitors paired with their proprietary TECFIT® software.

Jane Frost Performance Center The Jane Frost Performance Center in Sandwich, Cape Cod, offers golf club fittings at competitive prices by Master Fitter and PGA Professional Nick Wiseman. Services include driver, fairway wood/hybrid, irons, and wedge fittings, and various combinations thereof, as well as putter fittings by Edel Putter Fittings Expert Jane Frost. They are certified fitters for Callaway, TaylorMade, Mizuno, XXIO, Edel, Cleveland, Titleist, and Srixon. All work is fully guaranteed and discounts are given for orders exceeding certain amounts, as displayed on their website.

Joe & Leigh’s Golf Performance Center Joe & Leigh’s Golf Performance Center in South Easton is a brand-agnostic club fitting center staffed with Certified club fitters and equipped with the latest Foresight GC2 launch monitors. They have 5 indoor/outdoor hitting bays where the complete ball flight can be observed. Golfers can be fitted for drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, and wedges based on variables like clubhead speed and path, angle of attack, launch angle, spin rate, and so on. They supply all major brands including Ping, TaylorMade, Callaway, Cleveland, Titleist, Srixon, Mizuno, and Cobra.

Sandbaggers Golf Range Sandbaggers Golf Range of Pembroke offers customers a complete custom club fitting service using the latest Foresight CG2 launch monitors. Customers can test hundreds of driver, fairway wood, hybrid, and iron head/shaft combinations from all the leading manufacturers including Callaway, Ping, Titleist, TaylorMade, Srixon, Mizuno, XXIO, Tour Edge, Cleveland, and Bridgestone. Sandbaggers was a Top 100 Ping Club Fitter for 2015, 2016, and 2021.

Silvas Custom Golf Silva’s Custom Golf of Danvers is a small, family-owned business that provides golf services ranging from club repair, regripping, reshafting, and refinishing to specification checks, loft and lie adjustment, and full-set customization. Their highly-qualified staff were trained by the Mitchell Golf Academy and are members of the International Clubmakers Guild.

Sun ‘N Air Golf Center The Sun ‘N Air Golf Center in Danvers is a family-owned and operated golf driving range and learning center that was established in 1987. They provide long game, irons, and short game fittings using FlightScope technology. They are a Titleist Advanced Fitting Center and customers can try a range of equipment from Titleist as well as Callaway, Mizuno, Ping, Cleveland, Srixon, and other leading manufacturers.

Tour Quality Clubmaking Tour Quality Clubmaking is based at Stone Meadow Golf Center in Lexington and provides golf instruction, custom clubfitting and golf club repairs. They use quality components including shafts by Aldila, Graffalloy, Harrison, Rifle, True Temper, and UST and grips by Golf Pride, Lamkin, Sharpro, Kelmac, Tacki-Mac, and Winn. All their work is fully guaranteed.

Help Me Expand This Club Fitting Directory By Suggesting More Massachusetts Golf Club Fitters

If you own or operate a club fitting business in Massachusetts and would like to propose it for a listing on this page please contact me and provide me with information about your site, as explained on this page . Also, if you’ve experienced good customer service at another club fitting facility or golf course in the state and you think they should be added to this listing, please feel free to contact me and let me know the name of the company. I’ll be happy to view their online store or golf facility website and review their golf fitting services.

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4 drills to achieve tour quality impact.

There’s nothing more satisfying in golf than hearing and feeling that “crack” at impact, like the one you’d hear off the club of a PGA Tour pro. It’s an impressive sound on TV, but for anyone who’s heard it in person, it’s a sound like any other — it denotes a solid impact position with ample club head speed.

People often ask how to consistently achieve such an impact conditions. Thankfully, there are a few drills that will help you understand what it takes at impact to produce shots of that caliber. Below are the best drills I know to produce Tour quality impact, which will help you hear that crack at impact.

Imitate impact

As Homer Kelley told us in The Golfing Machine , you must understand the difference between address and impact. To feel this,  pose  in the impact position, then pose at the address position; this helps you to understand and feel what each position accomplishes. It’s these visuals that will help you see just how different address and impact really are.  

Address (left) and impact positions.

Simulating impact is a great way to feel the weight moving forward, the hands leading the club head at impact and the body rotating open. The key to this drill is to exaggerate your impact position so you can really “feel” the difference. For maximum effect, make sure to hold a few seconds at each position, which will help ingrain the feelings.

Drag the mop

Here’s another drill from Kelley , which I have found extremely effective.

To feel how the club “lags” behind your body, as well as how the pivot of your body drags the arms through impact, go to your kitchen and grab an old mop — or take out your driver and leave the head cover on. Put your mop or driver on the ground behind a golf ball and use the rotation of the body to “drag the wet mop” though impact. What you will learn from this drill is that in order to move the wet mop, you won’t use your hands, but rather the pivot of the body to propel your arms into and beyond impact.

That’s the feeling you should have around impact in order to maintain and deliver the club into the ball correctly.

Using a long club and pain

You understand the position, you have felt the correct pivot with the mop… but how can you use these feelings to hit a ball?   This is where your long club and pain come into the mix.   Take an alignment stick and jam it in the hole (on the top of the grip) of your 9 iron and set up with the stick out to the left of your body.   From here, hit 10-yard pitch shots trying not to get hit in the body by the extra part of the club.

Whenever your pivot stops driving the arms and you “flip” your hands, you will be the first to know as you get beat in the side by the extended club.

Related: This drill was also highlighted in “ 10 practice drills for game improvement “

The Penny Drill

Photo credit: Angie Rose Photography

Lastly, in oder to achieve and maintain quality impact alignments, you should learn to chip pennies off of a golf mat. If you can chip pennies, then hitting golf balls will seem simple.  I f you “yip” through impact, you’ll miss the penny, or make poor contact with it. It’s a great drill to make yourself commit to the shot at hand and trust that your pivot will guide the club head to the ball.

I would suggest performing the above drills in the order that they appear. This will enable you to learn “impact,” and then how to improve it.   Take your time and slowly build up to bigger swings.   Remember, if you cannot hit pitch shots with perfect alignments, then you’ll never do so with full swings.

Cheers to hard work!

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Tom F. Stickney II, is a specialist in Biomechanics for Golf, Physiology, and 3d Motion Analysis. He has a degree in Exercise and Fitness and has been a Director of Instruction for almost 30 years at resorts and clubs such as- The Four Seasons Punta Mita, BIGHORN Golf Club, The Club at Cordillera, The Promontory Club, and the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. His past and present instructional awards include the following: Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher, Golf Digest Top 50 International Instructor, Golf Tips Top 25 Instructor, Best in State (Florida, Colorado, and California,) Top 20 Teachers Under 40, Best Young Teachers and many more. Tom is a Trackman University Master/Partner, a distinction held by less than 25 people in the world. Tom is TPI Certified- Level 1, Golf Level 2, Level 2- Power, and Level 2- Fitness and believes that you cannot reach your maximum potential as a player with out some focus on your physiology. You can reach him at [email protected] and he welcomes any questions you may have.

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Jan 21, 2016 at 9:15 pm

Uh oh. We dont have pennies in canada anymore. Could be expensive to do this in canada with nickels. Side note. My impact doesn’t look anything like that. My hips are wide open about 40-50 degrees. And my shoulders are open about 10 degrees. Thats what happens when you have a swing powered by body rotation. And its the reason I hit it far and straight (took a year to sort out but i gained 20MPH).

Jan 22, 2016 at 11:10 am

Well, you obviously should be getting ready for your tour t time then. Let us commoners here enjoy the peace and quiet.

Jan 22, 2016 at 12:16 pm

Tech like Gears is starting to show that the ave tour impact is closer to 60 degs open for hips and 30 degs for shoulders. Shaun Webb has some good photos on twitter.

Jan 22, 2016 at 6:53 pm

Well, aren’t you special! Anything else you want to point out about yourself?

Jan 21, 2016 at 9:04 pm

IMO, The best way to learn this is buy DST club and practise.

Jan 21, 2016 at 8:56 pm

Another option would be to buy the ‘Tour Striker’ practice club and learn to hit that off a golf mat. That is my go to drill hitting into a net in my garage; and also I warm-up before a round hitting a few balls.

Jan 21, 2016 at 5:05 pm

Looking forward to trying these – thanks

Jan 21, 2016 at 12:55 pm

Best article in a long time, actual drills that help… Kuddos Tom!!!

Jan 22, 2016 at 10:14 am

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The wedge guy: the easiest-to-learn golf basic.

My golf learning began with this simple fact – if you don’t have a fundamentally sound hold on the golf club, it is practically impossible for your body to execute a fundamentally sound golf swing. I’m still a big believer that the golf swing is much easier to execute if you begin with the proper hold on the club.

As you might imagine, I come into contact with hundreds of golfers of all skill levels. And it is very rare to see a good player with a bad hold on the golf club. There are some exceptions, for sure, but they are very few and very far between, and they typically have beat so many balls with their poor grip that they’ve found a way to work around it.

The reality of biophysics is that the body moves only in certain ways – and the particulars of the way you hold the golf club can totally prevent a sound swing motion that allows the club to release properly through the impact zone. The wonderful thing is that anyone can learn how to put a fundamentally sound hold on the golf club, and you can practice it anywhere your hands are not otherwise engaged, like watching TV or just sitting and relaxing.

Whether you prefer an overlap, interlock or full-finger (not baseball!) grip on the club, the same fundamentals apply.  Here are the major grip faults I see most often, in the order of the frequency:

Mis-aligned hands

By this I mean that the palms of the two hands are not parallel to each other. Too many golfers have a weak left hand and strong right, or vice versa. The easiest way to learn how to hold the club with your palms aligned properly is to grip a plain wooden ruler or yardstick. It forces the hands to align properly and shows you how that feels. If you grip and re-grip a yardstick several times, then grip a club, you’ll see that the learning curve is almost immediate.

The position of the grip in the upper/left hand

I also observe many golfers who have the butt of the grip too far into the heel pad of the upper hand (the left hand for right-handed players). It’s amazing how much easier it is to release the club through the ball if even 1/4-1/2″ of the butt is beyond the left heel pad. Try this yourself to see what I mean.  Swing the club freely with just your left hand and notice the difference in its release from when you hold it at the end of the grip, versus gripping down even a half inch.

To help you really understand how this works, go to the range and hit shots with your five-iron gripped down a full inch to make the club the same length as your seven-iron. You will probably see an amazing shot shape difference, and likely not see as much distance loss as you would expect.

Too much lower (right) hand on the club

It seems like almost all golfers of 8-10 handicap or higher have the club too far into the palm of the lower hand, because that feels “good” if you are trying to control the path of the clubhead to the ball. But the golf swing is not an effort to hit at the ball – it is a swing of the club. The proper hold on the club has the grip underneath the pad at the base of the fingers. This will likely feel “weak” to you — like you cannot control the club like that. EXACTLY. You should not be trying to control the club with your lower/master hand.

Gripping too tightly

Nearly all golfers hold the club too tightly, which tenses up the forearms and prevents a proper release of the club through impact. In order for the club to move back and through properly, you must feel that the club is controlled by the last three fingers of the upper hand, and the middle two fingers of the lower hand. If you engage your thumbs and forefingers in “holding” the club, the result will almost always be a grip that is too tight. Try this for yourself. Hold the club in your upper hand only, and squeeze firmly with just the last three fingers, with the forefinger and thumb off the club entirely. You have good control, but your forearms are not tense. Then begin to squeeze down with your thumb and forefinger and observe the tensing of the entire forearm. This is the way we are made, so the key to preventing tenseness in the arms is to hold the club very lightly with the “pinchers” — the thumbs and forefingers.

So, those are what I believe are the four fundamentals of a good grip. Anyone can learn them in their home or office very quickly. There is no easier way to improve your ball striking consistency and add distance than giving more attention to the way you hold the golf club.

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Clement: Stop ripping off your swing with this drill!

Not the dreaded headcover under the armpit drill! As if your body is defective and can’t function by itself! Have you seen how incredible the human machine is with all the incredible feats of agility all kinds of athletes are accomplishing? You think your body is so defective (the good Lord is laughing his head off at you) that it needs a headcover tucked under the armpit so you can swing like T-Rex?

How a towel can fix your golf swing

This is a classic drill that has been used for decades. However, the world of marketed training aids has grown so much during that time that this simple practice has been virtually forgotten. Because why teach people how to play golf using everyday items when you can create and sell a product that reinforces the same thing? Nevertheless, I am here to give you helpful advice without running to the nearest Edwin Watts or adding something to your Amazon cart.

For the “scoring clubs,” having a solid connection between the arms and body during the swing, especially through impact, is paramount to creating long-lasting consistency. And keeping that connection throughout the swing helps rotate the shoulders more to generate more power to help you hit it farther. So, how does this drill work, and what will your game benefit from it? Well, let’s get into it.

You can use this for basic chip shots up to complete swings. I use this with every club in my bag, up to a 9 or 8-iron. It’s natural to create incrementally more separation between the arms and body as you progress up the set. So doing this with a high iron or a wood is not recommended.

While you set up to hit a ball, simply tuck the towel underneath both armpits. The length of the towel will determine how tight it will be across your chest but don’t make it so loose that it gets in the way of your vision. After both sides are tucked, make some focused swings, keeping both arms firmly connected to the body during the backswing and follow through. (Note: It’s normal to lose connection on your lead arm during your finishing pose.) When you’re ready, put a ball in the way of those swings and get to work.

Get a Better Shoulder Turn

Many of us struggle to have proper shoulder rotation in our golf swing, especially during long layoffs. Making a swing that is all arms and no shoulders is a surefire way to have less control with wedges and less distance with full swings. Notice how I can get in a similar-looking position in both 60° wedge photos. However, one is weak and uncontrollable, while the other is strong and connected. One allows me to use my larger muscles to create my swing, and one doesn’t. The follow-through is another critical point where having a good connection, as well as solid shoulder rotation, is a must. This drill is great for those who tend to have a “chicken wing” form in their lead arm, which happens when it becomes separated from the body through impact.

In full swings, getting your shoulders to rotate in your golf swing is a great way to reinforce proper weight distribution. If your swing is all arms, it’s much harder to get your weight to naturally shift to the inside part of your trail foot in the backswing. Sure, you could make the mistake of “sliding” to get weight on your back foot, but that doesn’t fix the issue. You must turn into your trial leg to generate power. Additionally, look at the difference in separation between my hands and my head in the 8-iron examples. The green picture has more separation and has my hands lower. This will help me lessen my angle of attack and make it easier to hit the inside part of the golf ball, rather than the over-the-top move that the other picture produces.

Stay Better Connected in the Backswing

When you don’t keep everything in your upper body working as one, getting to a good spot at the top of your swing is very hard to do. It would take impeccable timing along with great hand-eye coordination to hit quality shots with any sort of regularity if the arms are working separately from the body.

Notice in the red pictures of both my 60-degree wedge and 8-iron how high my hands are and the fact you can clearly see my shoulder through the gap in my arms. That has happened because the right arm, just above my elbow, has become totally disconnected from my body. That separation causes me to lift my hands as well as lose some of the extension in my left arm. This has been corrected in the green pictures by using this drill to reinforce that connection. It will also make you focus on keeping the lead arm close to your body as well. Because the moment either one loses that relationship, the towel falls.

I have been diligent this year in finding a few drills that target some of the issues that plague my golf game; either by simply forgetting fundamental things or by coming to terms with the faults that have bitten me my whole career. I have found that having a few drills to fall back on to reinforce certain feelings helps me find my game a little easier, and the “towel drill” is most definitely one of them.

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Doug Mael has been a Certified Professional Clubmaker / Fitter for more than 25 years. He started doing simple re-gripping and re-shafting projects in 1988, and took his first four-day clubmaking class at Golfsmith International in 1989. Shortly thereafter, Doug received Professional Clubmaker (and later Master Professional Clubmaker) certification from the Golf Clubmakers Association. In 1998, Doug was awarded the Distinguished Clubmaker Award from this clubmaking organization. In 2009, Doug became a Charter Member of the International Clubmakers Guild (ICG), the preeminent organization for golf clubmaking and clubfitting certification and training. Doug is also an active member of the Association of Golf Clubfitting Professionals (AGCP).

Over the past two-plus decades, Doug has performed virtually every type of clubfitting and clubmakingjob for golfers of all ages and abilities, including touring and club professionals, and professional athletes from the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB. He has also done fittings and built golf clubs for beginner-level golfers as young as 9 years old. During a four-year stint working for Golfsmith International, Doug taught clubmaking classes to more than 100 hobbyists and a few who became Professional Clubmakers, as well.

About Doug's Custom Clubs

Since its founding in 1988 by Professional Clubmaker / Fitter Douglas (Doug) Mael, Doug's Custom Clubs has served the golf equipment needs of hundreds -- possibly thousands -- of golfers. Satisfied customers include a wide range of golfers, from youth and adult beginners to touring professionals. Services provided by Doug's Custom Clubs include: swing analysis leading to custom clubfitting, professional clubmaking to fit the golfer's individual swing characteristics, club customization and modification, and a variety of club repairs. Having affiliations and dealer relationships with a variety of major golf equipment and component companies, a wide array of custom fitting options are available to golfers of all abilities. Doug is also highly experienced and accomplished in the art of custom wedge grinding to fit the golfers' short game needs.

In 2013, Doug formed an affiliation with Tour Quality Golf, an Oklahoma-based clubmaking/clubfitting organization specializing in premium Tour-level and Tour-issued golf equipment and components. This affiliation enables Doug's Custom Clubs to offer its customers a broad range of golf equipment that is normally available only to the world's best professional golfers.

Due to its long-standing business relationships with leading golf equipment and component companies, Doug's Custom Clubs is able to offer multiple clubfitting options. Clubheads, shafts, and grips are available from many major suppliers, including:

As a preferred-level trade dealer for many of these golf component and equipment companies, Doug's Custom Clubs is able to offer competitive pricing. However, this business is not about discount prices. No matter how much money you might save, an ill-fitting golf club or set of clubs is never a bargain! Above all else, Doug's Custom Clubs has one objective -- to provide superior golf clubs that fit the individual golfer and that golfer's swing to the maximum extent possible, resulting in a satisfied golfer who enjoys his or her game of golf thanks to properly-fitted equipment! This is the "Mission Statement" of Doug's Custom Clubs, plain and simple.

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Doug Mael has been a Certified Professional Clubmaker / Fitter for more than 28 years. He started doing simple re-gripping and re-shafting projects in 1988, and took his first four-day clubmaking class at Golfsmith International in 1989. Shortly thereafter, Doug received Professional Clubmaker (and later Master Professional Clubmaker) certification from the Golf Clubmakers Association. In 1998, Doug was awarded the Distinguished Clubmaker Award from this clubmaking organization. In 2009, Doug became a Charter Member of the International Clubmakers Guild (ICG), the preeminent organization for golf clubmaking and clubfitting certification and training, and he currently serves on the Guild's Board of Directors. Doug is also an active member of the Association of Golf Clubfitting Professionals (AGCP).

Over the past two-plus decades, Doug has performed virtually every type of clubfitting and clubmakingjob for golfers of all ages and abilities, including touring and club professionals, and professional athletes from the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB. He has also done fittings and built golf clubs for beginner-level golfers as young as 9 years old. During a four-year stint working for Golfsmith International, Doug taught clubmaking classes to more than 100 hobbyists and a few who became Professional Clubmakers, as well.

ABOUT DOUG'S CUSTOM CLUBS

Since its founding in 1988 by Professional Clubmaker / Fitter Douglas (Doug) Mael, Doug's Custom Clubs has served the golf equipment needs of hundreds -- possibly thousands -- of golfers. Satisfied customers include a wide range of golfers, from youth and adult beginners to touring professionals. Services provided by Doug's Custom Clubs include: swing analysis leading to custom clubfitting, professional clubmaking to fit the golfer's individual swing characteristics, club customization and modification, and a variety of club repairs. Having affiliations and dealer relationships with a variety of major golf equipment and component companies, a wide array of custom fitting options are available to golfers of all abilities. Doug is also highly experienced and accomplished in the art of custom wedge grinding to fit the golfers' short game needs.

In 2013, Doug formed an affiliation with Tour Quality Golf, an Oklahoma-based clubmaking/clubfitting organization specializing in premium Tour-level and Tour-issued golf equipment and components. This affiliation enables Doug's Custom Clubs to offer its customers a broad range of golf equipment that is normally available only to the world's best professional golfers.

Due to its long-standing business relationships with leading golf equipment and component companies, Doug's Custom Clubs is able to offer multiple clubfitting options. Clubheads, shafts, and grips are available from many major suppliers, including:

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Best time to travel: June for the “White Nights” Best gateway city: Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia Moscow and St. Petersburg Slide Show

Experience the art treasures of Moscow and St. Petersburg with guide, Amy Osaki. Begin in Moscow, continental Europe’s largest city, the seat of the government of Russia, and now home to over twenty billionaires! View iconic sites such as the Kremlin (which began as a fortress in the eleventh century), Red Square, and the sixteenth century St. Basil’s Cathedral. Then explore the art masterpieces at the Tretyakov Gallery, the National Museum of Russian Fine Art encompassing works from the eleventh to the twentieth century. Visit the Armory at the Kremlin filled with Imperial treasures including Faberge eggs once exchanged by the tsar and tsarina at Easter. Conclude your Moscow experience at the quiet seventeenth century Novodevichy Convent, one of many World Heritage sites included in the trip.

After a short flight, continue the trip with five days in St. Petersburg where you’ll be immersed in the opulence of Imperial Russia. Established by Tsar Peter I in 1703, St. Petersburg (known as Petrograd and Leningrad for most of the twentieth century) was the capital of the Russian empire for over two hundred years until the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Hermitage—said to be the largest art museum in the world with a collection of over three million objects housed in four main buildings—rivals the Louvre in Paris for both the quantity and quality of its treasures. Founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great, and open to the pubic for over two hundred years the museum is so vast that we’ll spread our visit out over several days and organize it by different themes. Also on the schedule is a visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress—the original citadel above the river founded in 1703—as well as some of the Imperial palaces in and around St. Petersburg such as Peterhof, a World Heritage Site. Peter I hired French architects to work on his many palaces, including Jean Baptiste Le Blond who worked with Andre Le Notre at Versailles. Consider enhancing your Russian experience by purchasing tickets to a performance—perhaps a ballet at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre (also known as the Kirov).

Day 1 Overnight in Moscow Arrive in Moscow and transfer to your centrally-located hotel, your base for the next two nights. Enjoy an afternoon and early evening walk through Red Square (Krasnaya Ploshchad) past St. Basil’s Cathedral, and GUM department store all of which are back-dropped by the walls of the Kremlin fortress. Remember that we are here during the fabled “White Nights” when the summer days linger with light-filled evenings.

Day 2 Overnight in Moscow Within the walls of the Kremlin fortress, visit the Armoury Museum, one of Moscow’s oldest museums established at the start of the nineteenth century. The Kremlin Armoury was the royal arsenal; it produced and stored the weapons, jewelry and other regalia of the tsars. The museum’s collection encompasses four thousand items of applied art from Russia and elsewhere dating from the early fourth century to the twentieth century. Later in the day, visit the collection of masterpieces of the renowned Tretyakov Gallery. The Tretyakov collections were begun by the philanthropist Tretyakov brothers in the early nineteenth century. The gallery is recognized by many as a key repository of Russian art spanning the nation’s artistic tradition from early Orthodox icons to art nouveau, impressionist, and avant-garde works.

Day 3 Overnight in St Petersburg Enjoy a morning visit to the sixteenth century Novodevichy Convent named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2004. The convent’s name is sometimes translated as “New Maidens’ Monastery” to differentiate is from the convent within the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. Surrounded by white crenellated walls, this complex of churches has remained essentially intact since the seventeenth century. Here you’ll find the five-domed Cathedral of Our Lady of Smolensk with its spectacular iconostasis and the tall, red and white Gate Church of the Transfiguration which is often cited as a fine example of “Moscow Baroque” architecture. The neighboring Novodevichy Cemetery is the final resting place of the likes of Anton Chekhov, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Boris Yeltsin. This afternoon fly to St. Petersburg, Russia’s second largest city situated on the banks of the Neva River where it empties into the Gulf of Finland.

Day 4 Overnight in St Petersburg Start of your exploration of St. Petersburg with a visit to the Peter and Paul Fortress, the original citadel of St. Petersburg. The fortress was built to the designs of the Swiss Italian architect Domenico Trezzini in the early eighteenth century. Trezzini’s Peter and Paul Cathedral dominates the fortress grounds and its iconic golden spire punctuates into the Baltic sky. Later visit the Yusupov Palace on the Moika, acclaimed as an “encyclopedia of St. Petersburg aristocratic interior design.” The palace was the home of the Yusupov family from 1830 and 1917 and was the place where Grigori Rasputin, a spiritual mentor to Tsar Nicholas II and the Royal Family in the early 20th century, was assassinated. A visit to the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood built between 1883 and 1907 rounds out the day. The church was built in “Russian Revivalist” architectural style by Tsar Alexander III in commemoration of his father, Alexander II. The church occupies a conspicuous location on St. Petersburg’s Griboedov Canal and contains 7,500 square meters of mosaics; the interior walls and ceilings are completely covered by mosaics.

Day 5 Overnight in St Petersburg Seeing St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum in a day would be like trying to see the Smithsonian in a day! Rather than a forced march through the galleries at a rapid pace, we will slow down and savor the masterpieces. Remember, there are nearly seven miles worth of exhibitions! Today we focus on “Imperial Russia,” touring the rooms decorated for members of the Russian Imperial Family and viewing the art they commissioned and collected. This is the art that influenced the style of the grand palaces of the era. View the Grand Suite of rooms, Peter I’s collection of gold, and the jewelers art owned by the Russian Imperial Family (including Fabergé eggs, gold and diamonds). Here, too, are the rooms of Catherine II and her son Paul I with their fifteenth to eighteenth century French paintings and sculpture (Poussin, Watteau, Fragonard, Chardin, and Houdon).

Day 6 Overnight in St Petersburg Return for a second dose of the Hermitage! Today is dedicated to the famous European masterpieces exhibited at the Hermitage. Feast your eyes on memorable works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Tiepolo, Velazquez, and El Greco. At the Hermitage, you can revel in Rembrandt; there are twenty of his works in the museum’s collection. After lunch, enjoy the eighteenth to twentieth century masterpieces of Monet, van Gogh, Gauguin, Rodin, Picasso, Matisse and Kandinsky. Digest the art and reflect on this unique collection of human creations. Consider an evening performance, possibly at the Mariinsky Theatre.

Day 7 Overnight in St Petersburg Journey by hydrofoil across the Gulf of Finland to experience Peter I’s palace at Peterhof, a series of palaces and gardens that evoke comparisons with Versailles which Peter visited in 1715. Begun in 1714 with the construction of the Monplaisir palace and expanded by later Imperial generations who added Rococo and Neo-classical elements, Peterhof is now a World Heritage Site. The creative mastery of architects, engineers, artists and craftsmen from throughout Europe is on display here and all is choreographed to celebrate water in homage to Peter, the maritime emperor.

Day 8 Overnight in St Petersburg Go behind the scenes with an excursion to the Hermitage Museum’s Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Center on the right back of the Neva River north of Kamenny Island. This vast treasure house is only accessible by private tour. Later, travel to Vasilvesky Island across the river from the Hermitage to visit Menishkov Palace completed in 1721 and now the oldest stone building in St. Petersburg. Enjoy a farewell dinner this evening.

About your guide : Amy Osaki holds a master’s degree from the Winterthur Museum. She studied art at the Louvre Museum in Paris and worked as a museum curator for over a decade including six years at the Portland Art Museum. She is an award-winning art educator who has led art trips around the world for the last fifteen years with Walking Softly Adventures. Many of these trips were offered for graduate credit from Portland State University where she is an Adjunct Professor.

Resources for Further Learning

• Preview part of the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery at its website.
• Learn more about the Moscow Kremlin .
• Prepare yourself to experience the Hermitage . You can even shop on-line at the museum’s on-line museum store!

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